Christmas House Tour

All month long I have been looking at Christmas Home Tours on various blogs and links from Pinterest, which made me anxious to post mine!  But when I sat down to post them, I realized they were pretty terrible blurry iphone pictures with bad lighting! : (  But instead of stressing over it and trying to take more pictures, I decided to just post them anyway! Imagine better photography! : )

 

Merry Christmas!

 

My fake window with all my cards

 

plant plants and more plants

 

 

 

 

This beauty only lasted about a week and was done before christmas, but oh my, was it beautiful!  I almost went to the nursery and got another that we could enjoy the week we have been home on Christmas vacation, but they are expensive, so I stayed strong and didn't get one!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I found this star garland on Etsy, and I love it!  I got 1 strand for my laundry room window and 2 strands for my fake window (the glitter is one sided, so I needed 2 for the window so it was glittery from both sides).  I think this will be staying up longer than the rest of the Christmas decorations.

 

 

 

I got my paperwhites planted late, so they are not blooming yet, but the leaves still look pretty! Perhaps they will bloom for new years?

 

 

 

 

I like to add seasonal images to my kitchen bulletin board, so here it us with some Christmas pictures, including our 2014 card!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I love these little guys!

 

 

 

This is a pretty good view, and a pretty impossible area to take a photo of due to the lighting. 
It is a good place to get stuck washing tons of dishes! : )

 

Well that wraps it up! Hopefully next year I can get some better lighting for some better photos!  I better enjoy all these nice decorations, since they are coming down later this week!

Christmas Date

Hey! So December is coming to a close and I have not posted any Christmas pictures!  So I figured I best get on that, and decided to start with our Christmas date! : )

 

 

 

 

Earlier in the month Colin surprised me with a Christmas Day Date! Yay! What a good boy!

We went out for breakfast at the café that has great omelets and then hit up some antique shops! yay!  And bonus, that day was breakfast with Santa!!! AND their omelet special was asparagus and mozzarella! They must have known I was coming!

Then we went to the antique stores hunting for treasure!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Once we were done shopping, we headed home and went to the spa in town for massages!!! Then after our awesome massages, we ended up date day with some super yummy Italian sandwiches.

 

 

 

 

 

It was a really great Christmas date! Thank you Colin!

Pinterest Christmas

To kick off the Holiday Season, please enjoy some fun Christmas images I gathered from the Pinterest...and to hold you over until I post Christmas images of my own! : )

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Wreath Time

One more Christmas post, even though I know everyone is over Christmas.... : )

 

One of my winter tasks was making wreaths for our doors.  When Molly and I were at Michaels to pick up supplies for another craft, I got some wreath decorating supplies.  Fun Ribbon, Pine cones with painted tips and gold Christmas balls.  I know a 'red' scheme pops better from the street, but come on, gold...glitter... poka-dots, how could I saw no to that ribbon!?!? I also got thin dark green floral wire. The thinner wire you can cut with scissors, which is good since I don't know where my wire cutters went!

 

 

 

 

I wanted to support our local garden center to get my wreaths but they had slim pickings so I went to Home Depot...(boo don't get fresh greens at the big box store...) any way...moving on...

I had some time one day so I got to work....  The gold balls already had wire, so they were easy to twist into the greens to secure them.  I decided to wire them in in groups of 3. 

 

 

The pine cones did not have wire, but that is easy to add, just wrap the wire around the base, but tuck it into the cracks so you can't really see it.  They had plastic stakes, but I ripped those off.

 

 

 

Then the real challenge...make your bow..in hindsight I should have bought a bow, or had someone at work make my bow, since I didn't do that great of a job. haha It is way too big and lopsided...oh well, you win some you lose some!  And the way I made it, I cut little slits in it, so I couldn't redo it.  Good think I didn't bother taking photos of the steps I used to make the bow, since they wouldn't have been worth sharing! : )

 

 

But I think the average person thinks the bow looks fine, and the wreath does look nice.  And sometimes that needs to be good enough. : )

Christmas Tray and Breaking the Rules

Growing up we had a hard and fast rule...No Christmas presents before Christmas...NO EXCEPTIONS! and I mean NO exceptions....

 

But Colin broke the rule and gave me a present early!  We live in a little down town, so last weekend, while it was snowing, we had a little down town day. : )  We got hot chocolate and strolled down one side of the street, the up the other side in the falling snow, popping in and out of the shops.  Colin got cookies from the bakery lady, I bought some Christmas gifts  and Colin let me pick out some of my own Christmas gifts!  One of which was a Christmas Tray.  I had assumed it was going to be wrapped and put under the tree, but to my surprise, I went into the front room and it was on the table. : )  I wasn't about to argue.

 

 

 

I have a pretty tray my mom's friend gave me there usually, but I thought it might be fun to switch it up for the holidays.  I discovered this artist last year, and I have noticed over the past year, her work is available in more places.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry and Happy Indeed!  Merry Christmas Everyone!

 

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Christmas Around the House

  I had fun decorating this year, so please enjoy a little Christmas House Tour. : )

 

 

I think the window between the kitchen and the tv room looks lovely, but I have noticed it is a hard place to get a good picture of, but I tried anyway. : )

 

 

 

 

 

These little guys are my new purchase.  I had seen big ones, but didn't want to spend the money on big ones, so when I saw small ones I was sold! They are ornaments, but I just took off the string.  Their glittery scarves look extra sparkly at night when the candle is going.

 

 

This room has come a long way from last Christmas, when we had a tree in any empty room!

 

 

 

 

Our skinny Christmas tree from our tree hunt!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Merry Christmas Everyone, I hope your homes are just as Merry! : )